It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another human being, not with the mind, nor even with the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“It is with the soul that we grasp the essence of another person, not with the mind, not even with the heart.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The enchanting, and sometimes terrifying, thing is that the world can be so many things to so many different souls. That it… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous man, the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the man in… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The word must become flesh; the soul thirsts. On whatever crumb my eye fastens, I will pounce and devour. If to live… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“No matter where you go, no matter what you touch, there is cancer and syphilis. It is written in the sky; it… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The moment I stepped on the American boat which was to take me to New York I felt I was in another… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I see myself forever and ever as the ridiculous [person], the lonely soul, the wanderer, the restless frustrated artist, the [person] in… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
There are moments when the elixir of life rises to such over−brimming splendor that the soul spills over. In the seraphic smile… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I stood before a mirror and said fearfully: “I want to see how I look in the mirror with my eyes closed.”… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“The creative life! Ascension. Passing beyond oneself. Rocketing out into the blue, grasping at flying ladders, mounting, soaring, lifting the world up… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“Christ will never more come down to earth nor will there be any law-giver, nor will murder cease nor theft, nor rape,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I am the gorilla who feels his wings growing, a giddy gorilla in the centre of a satin-like emptiness; the night too… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I look out again at the sun-my first full gaze. It is blood-red and men are walking about on rooftops. Everything above the horizon is clear to me. It is like Easter Sunday. Death is behind me and birth too. I am going to live now among the life maladies. I am going to live the spiritual life of the… — Henry Miller Copy Share
“I reached out for something to attach myself to—and I found nothing. But in reaching out, in the effort to grasp, to attach myself,… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“I saw the errors I had made and assumed full responsibility for everything.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
The monstrous thing is not that men have created roses out of this dung heap, but that, for some reason or other, they should… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“(...)I decided to let myself drift with the tide, to make not the least resistance to fate, no matter in what form it presented… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“If it be knowledge or wisdom one is seeking, then one had better go direct to the source. And the source is not the… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“In the egocentric prism the helpless victim is walled in by the very light which he refracts. The ego dies in its own glass… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“When one spends what he has on himself, when one has a thoroughly good time with his own money, people are apt to say “he doesn’t know what to do with his money.” For my part, I don’t see any better use to which one can put money. About such individuals one can’t say that they’re generous or stingy. They… — Henry Miller Copy Share
She may be lying in bed reading a book, she may be making love with a prize fighter, or she may be running like… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“And no one sets about saving the world unless he has first experienced the miracle of personal salvation.” — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“He looks about the room at the few sticks of furniture, at the dirty bed sheets and the wash basin with the dirty water… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image